A website can be a great shopfront for your organisation and every day, new companies join the foray of offering online goods for clamouring online customers. But an online store front needs to be robust, it needs to be designed to run 24×7 .. and it sets new expectations for your organisation to aspire to. The last few hours have been pretty eventful for the web delivery team down at Sainsbury’s for example. The online store “died” yesterday, and any…
An interesting post on TechCrunch caught my eye this morning which talks about a new website that just went live called GlassDoor. It allows employees to post anonymous salary information and reviews about working for their employers and collates them by company and position. The main aim is let people share their feedback, compare their market worth and get an insider’s view of a company where may intend to move to. There’s already some interesting debate about the company, but…
One thing that REALLY gets under my skin is when people manipulate statistics to try and create sensational news. I came across this news article this morning: Malta’s food prices second highest in eurozone By MaltaMedia News Jun 3, 2008 – 10:44:20 AM Food prices in Malta rose by 9.7% in April 2008, more than twice the inflation rate which during the same month stood at 4.1% in 2007, according to Eurostat. Malta, therefore, has the second highest rise in…
Was leafing through this month’s issue of Reader’s Digest and came across an interesting article by Peter Jones, a millionaire “serial entrepreneur” who takes part in the TV show Dragon’s Den. Anyway, the article lists some advice that Jones has to anyone interested in following their dreams and making their millions. Here’s his advice: Use your influence: Focus on things you’re good at and the contacts you have amassed Use your confidence: Remove the word failure from your vocabulary; replace…
Well, we’re down to the final week before my final two exams. I’ve been doing this MBA over the last 4 years and have decided to finish off my last two exams in one go, just to get them out of the way. With any luck, that means I’ll be graduating later on this year. Yippee! Anyway, my last 2 exams are Negotiation and Influence, both by Gavin Kennedy. Here’s a quick profile: Professor Gavin Kennedy was Professor of Defence…
Interesting post today on Techcrunch about the current debate around copyright law and Viacom’s $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube. I’m not going to enter into the merits of whether Arlington is right or wrong, but instead focus on that last paragraph of the post: …it’s time for copyright holders to rethink their business models. The winners won’t be the companies that win or lose billion dollar lawsuits. It’ll be the companies that throw out everything that’s come before, and build…